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Jul 4

BRICS expands to majority of world population: Vietnam joins, USA fails to divide China & Vietnam

BRICS has expanded to 20 countries - 10 members and 10 partners - after adding Vietnam. BRICS+ now makes up 43.93% of world GDP (PPP) and 55.61% of the global population. Ben Norton explains how the US failed to divide China and Vietnam in the Second Cold War. VIDEO: https://www. ... Show More

23m 29s

Jul 1

Dedollarization: How Iran challenges US dollar dominance and the petrodollar system

Iran has used its status as a leading oil and gas producer to promote dedollarization, rejecting the US dollar and trading with China, Russia, India, and other BRICS members in their national currencies. Ben Norton explains the Western economic war on Iran, and Tehran's response. ... Show More

24m 1s

Jun 27

War on Iran is part of US plan for global domination: Economist Michael Hudson explains

War on Iran is part of the US empire's larger attempt to re-impose its unipolar dominance on the global political and financial system, argues economist Michael Hudson. Washington wants to preserve dollar hegemony and the petrodollar, while disrupting BRICS and Eurasian integrati ... Show More

52m 25s

May 13

PODCAST: Daily Energy Markets - May 13th

Caption - James McCallum, CEO & Chairman, Xergy Group, Professor of Energy, Strathclyde University; Maleeha Bengali, Founder, MB Commodity Corner; and Paul Hickin, Chief Economist & Editor-in-Chief, Petroleum Economist, join the Daily Energy Markets Podcast conversation today and ... Show More

34m 37s

Apr 28

Should we be optimistic about the US economy? With Michael Strain

Almost a month since ‘liberation day’, the potential impacts of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime are starting to sink in. US hard data isn’t yet showing much negative impact from changes to US trade policy – but economists are gloomy on US growth prospects. The IMF last wee ... Show More

31m 2s

Apr 3

Wall of duties: Trump’s towering tariffs

SHOW-NOTES TEXT (with links and timestamps; 60 wds max)Even in the run-up to Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff hikes, few had expected such colossal levies. Our correspondent explains how they will shake America’s economy and global trade. After Sudanese government forces r ... Show More

24m 39s

Aug 2024

Trump vs. Harris on the Economy

As the 2024 presidential race enters the homestretch, former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are putting economic policy at the center of their pitches to voters.Jim Tankersley, who covers economic policy for The New York Times, evaluates both of their ... Show More

35m 52s

Feb 2025

War hoarse: is Zelensky being heard?

In an interview with The Economist ahead of the Munich Security Conference, Ukraine’s president is pessimistic that Trump can end the conflict. How fish farming in West Africa could improve food security (11.57). And contemplating the holy hashtags of FaithTok (17:10). Listen to ... Show More

23m 21s

Oct 2024

Pas trop à gauche et centré sur les classes moyennes, le programme économique de Kamala Harris dévoilé

S'il y a bien un sujet qui pourrait faire basculer la campagne présidentielle aux États-Unis, c'est l'économie. Les électeurs sont très attentifs à la situation financière du pays. James Carville, le conseiller de Bill Clinton, en avait compris l'importance lors de la course à l' ... Show More

14m 4s

Apr 3

Wall of duties: Trump’s towering tariffs

Even in the run-up to Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff hikes, few had expected such colossal levies. Our correspondent explains how they will shake America’s economy and global trade. After Sudanese government forces retake Khartoum, will this alter the course of the civil ... Show More

24m 39s

Jan 2025

What went wrong with capitalism?

The bond markets are back in British politics and have made Rachel Reeves’ job even harder. The Chancellor has headed to China amid a backdrop of warnings over market turmoil, stubborn interest rates and the prospect of public spending cuts. But how much of it is her fault? In th ... Show More

37m 31s

Jun 2024

How do we tell a new story about neoliberalism?

We live under an invisible ideology. It tells us that we are not citizens but consumers. That intervening in the free market compromises our freedom. That we are all millionaires-in-waiting - and if we are struggling to make ends meet, then we only have ourselves to blame. This i ... Show More

55m 7s

Apr 17

Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions

President Xi Jinping’s style of negotiating is staid, distanced, a quiet projection of power. President Donald Trump’s is not. That dynamic is complicating their gargantuan standoff. Spain ends up with more and more remains of migrants who die on their journeys—and its morgues ca ... Show More

24m 57s

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